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posted by martyb on Friday August 21 2015, @06:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the fighting-over-office-space dept.

El Reg has published an article that suggests, at least according to one person in the LibreOffice community, that OpenOffice development is essentially moribund and Apache should abandon it.

Christian Schaller, a Red Hat Software Engineering Manager and GNOME developer, wrote an open letter to Apache saying that "the OpenOffice project is all but dead upstream since IBM pulled their developers off the project almost a year ago and has significantly fallen behind feature wise... I hope that now that it is clear that this effort has failed that you would be willing to re-direct people who go to the openoffice.org website to the LibreOffice website instead."

A member of the Apache OpenOffice team was quick to respond: "We think Apache OpenOffice as released has been a huge success," he said. "Most of us don't really like the direction LibreOffice is heading to."

That said, the most recent OpenOffice update, version 4.1.1, was published nearly a year ago, and while the source code repository does show recent activity, it is much less than that for LibreOffice, as a quick browse of GitHub stats will confirm.

Other coverage can be found here.

I use LibreOffice when I'm in Linux and OpenOffice when I'm in MacOS X. Personally, I prefer them both to MS Office, although I do have MS Office on the Mac only because the people I work with don't use anything else. Are there any Soylentils here beside myself who use either one of these free products?


Note by Subsentient: Changed title from "Wither OpenOffice?"

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Friday August 21 2015, @08:20AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday August 21 2015, @08:20AM (#225754) Homepage

    Then replacing it with a synonym should make sense:

    "Dry out OpenOffice?"
    "Shrivel OpenOffice?"
    "Die OpenOffice?"
    "Become decrepit OpenOffice?"

    Still looks kind of nonsense-y to me.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @08:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @08:58AM (#225760)

    it's probably an obscure reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whither_Canada%3F [wikipedia.org]

    you can turn in your geek-card now

    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday August 21 2015, @09:24AM

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday August 21 2015, @09:24AM (#225768) Homepage

      Then it would be spelled with a "wh", wouldn't it?

      It sounds like you think the phrase "Whither [X]?" originated with Monty Python. I think it might predate that by a bit.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @02:17PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @02:17PM (#225849)

        When I read this, I presumed it was whither -- as for "what is next, what shall replace it -- whatever will happen to Open Office"

        It also can be read as "O Open office, you have withered on the vine, long before your time"

        Or "Die die die open office, I imperatively state that thou shalt wither!"

        Or Orson Wells -- I'll sell no wine before its time!

        (but now I might need to contend with withering criticism for my comments.)

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 21 2015, @02:16PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday August 21 2015, @02:16PM (#225848) Journal

    "Wohin OpenOffice?"

    It's much clearer in the original German.

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